WOKING HUNDRED 



EAST HORSLEY 



AGMONDESHAM. Ar- 

 gent a cAeveron &%wt be- 

 tween three boari 1 headi 

 table <witfi three cinqfoilt 

 or on the cheveron. 



his wife, 40 by which the manor was united to the other 

 manor of East Horsley. 



The origin of the so-called manor of ROW- 

 BARNES (Ruebern, Rughberne) in East Horsley is 

 somewhat obscure. In 1215 Ralph de Kameis (Camois) 

 and Matilda his wife claimed land in Rowbarnes of Peter 

 de Rowbarnes. 41 Ralph de Camois held Wotton," and 

 Rowbarnes still pays quit-rent to the manor of Wotton. 



In 1229 Walter de Rowbarnes granted to Matilda 

 de Kalcham half a virgate of land in Horsley. 4 * Ac- 

 cording to the pedigree of the Agmondesham family, 

 given in the Vliitationi of Surrey," Ralph, great-grand- 

 son of Walter Agmondesham, who lived in the 

 time of Henry III, gained possession of Rowbarnes 

 Manor by his marriage with one Isabel, whose 

 parentage is unfortunately not stated. This family 

 was still at East Horsley in 1411 when the jurors at 

 the archbishop's court declared 

 that the highway was liable to 

 be flooded owing to the de- 

 fault of Philip Agmonde- 

 sham. 1 * Philip, according to 

 the pedigree, was the son of 

 Ralph and Isabel. 



Another Ralph, grandson of 

 Philip, died seised of Row- 

 barnes in 1498, leaving a son 

 and heir John, then twenty- 

 three years of age. 4 * John died 

 without issue, 47 and the manor 

 passed to his brother Thomas, 

 who survived him only for a 

 few years. The inquisition taken at Thomas's death 

 states that he left an infant daughter Barbara, 48 but 

 it seems probable that she died soon after her father, 

 since the Agmondesham pedigree represents him as 

 dying without issue. In any case Rowbarnes came 

 into the possession of John son of Thomas's brother 

 Henry, 4 ' who also obtained the archbishop's manor 

 by a grant from Queen Elizabeth. 50 From that date 

 the two manors have the same descent. 



Gervase of Canterbury mentions a convent of Black 

 Nuns at Horsley. By a process of elimination, because 

 Canterbury and Exeter held the rest, this has been 

 supposed to have been at Rowbarnes, but there is no 

 other record of it. 



The church of ST. M4RTIN consists 



CHURCH of a chancel 296. 3 in. by 156. gin., 



a nave 49 ft. 8 in. by 1 6 ft., with a north 



aisle I oft. 4 in. wide, a west tower 1 6 ft. 2 in. by 



10 ft. 4 in., and a south porch. 



Much repair and rebuilding has obscured the 

 history of the building, but before 1869 the chancel 

 was of 1 3th-century date, and the nave, which was not 

 entirely rebuilt, is probably older. The west tower 

 is so covered with plaster that little can be said of its 

 history ; it opens to the nave by a modern arch, above 

 which is a blocked pointed arch, presumably of 1 3th- 

 century date. A third arch, now quite covered up, 

 is said to exist above the pointed arch, and on the 

 strength of thisa pre-Conquest date has been claimed for 

 the tower. It would be interesting if any proof could 

 be obtained. The windows of the tower are small 

 lancets, in great measure modern, but in the west wall 

 is what looks like a round-headed window opening, 



the lower part of which has been destroyed by the 

 insertion of a west doorway late in the 1 3th or 141)1 

 century. The plan of the tower is unusual, being much 

 wider from north to south than from east to west. 



The north aisle seems to have been originally of 

 two bays, and the chapel east of it, which now is 

 thrown into the aisle, must have existed in some form 

 from the I3th century, though it seems to have been 

 rebuilt in the 1 5th. The aisle was probably widened 

 in the I5th century, and the chapel was entirely 

 rebuilt in 1 869. The chancel and nave are practically 

 of equal width, a fact which suggests a rebuilding of 

 the former in the 1 3th century round an older chancel, 

 while the nave has preserved its original plan. The 

 difference of axis between nave and chancel points in 

 the same direction. 



In the east wall of the chancel is a triplet of lancets 

 with diapered inner splays, while the north wall con- 

 tains two and the south wall three lancets, all being 

 repaired and reset in new walls in 1869. There 

 was formerly a third lancet on the north and a north 

 doorway. 



To the west of the north windows is a shallow 

 modern recess for the organ, the arch opening to it 

 having attached shafts with moulded bases and capitals. 

 The three east windows are recorded to have been of 

 equal height before 1869. 



The chancel arch has re-tooled 1 3th-century jambs 

 with attached semi-columns having original moulded 

 capitals but modern bases. The arch has been rebuilt 

 and is two-centred and of two chamfered orders. 



The north arcade of the nave is of four bays with 

 octagonal columns which have splayed bases, of which 

 only one is original, and heavy hollow-chamfered 

 square-edged abaci. The arches are two-centred and 

 are of two orders, the inner hollow-chamfered and the 

 outer with a plain chamfer. Only the two western 

 bays of the arcade are old, the other two dating from 

 1869 ; so that no evidence of the former history of 

 this part of the church remains. The old work is in 

 chalk, of very broad and plain detail, and in spite of 

 its square-edged abaci is probably not earlier than the 

 middle of the 1 3th century, the section of the arches 

 being by no means of early character. 



The south wall of the nave has three pairs of lancet 

 windows under inclosing arches dating from 1 869, 

 and replacing two-light windows of 1 5th-century 

 style ; between the second and third of these windows 

 is the south doorway, which is also modern and has 

 plain chamfered jambs and a pointed arch in Bath 

 stone. The porch of 1 869 is of timber construction 

 and replaces one which was apparently ancient, and 

 had a roof of Horsham stone slabs. 



The east window of the north chapel, now forming 

 the east end of the north aisle, is modern, of 14th- 

 century design, and the north window is a modern 

 copy of a 15th-century original, of three lights with a 

 transom under a square head : west of it is a modern 

 copy of a 1 5th-century doorway. Further west in 

 the same wall, in the aisle proper, are two late 1 5th- 

 century windows, each of two cinquefoiled lights under 

 a square head, and in the west wall is a similar window 

 with a moulded label. 



Some of the features of the tower have been already 

 noted. A modern lancet has been cut in its south 



40 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. Hi, 

 I. 



41 Feet of F. Surr. 1 5 John, no. 97. 

 48 Testa de Nevil! (Rec. Com.), 219. 



Feetof F.Surr.Eat.i3 Hen.III,no.69. 



44 Harl. Soc. Publ. iliii, 53. 



45 Eccl. Com. Ct. R. bdlc. 18, no. 6. 

 44 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xiii, 67. 



351 



4 ? Harl. Soc. Publ. xliii, 54. 



48 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xzii, 32. 



Harl. Soc. Publ. xliii, 54. 



60 Pat. 2 EUz. pt. v. 



